Al Bayda climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Al Bayda?

Al Bayda has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.6 °C and it receives 409 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Al Bayda?

The hottest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 24 July 2025, reaching 36.5 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Al Bayda?

The coldest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 21 December 2008, at 2.1 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Al Bayda?

Almost never: Al Bayda sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Al Bayda warmed?

Yes: Al Bayda warmed by +2.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Al Bayda?

The wettest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 11 August 1977, with 80 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Al Bayda?

The windiest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 25 May 1963, with winds reaching 31.8 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Al Bayda?

The warmest month in Al Bayda is June (23.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (15.8 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Al Bayda?

Al Bayda receives on average 409 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 98 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Al Bayda?

Al Bayda gets on average 11.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,015 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Al Bayda (Yemen) has a hot semi-arid climate (BSh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 19.6 °C and it receives 409 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is June (23.6 °C on average) and the coldest is January (15.8 °C). Rainfall peaks in August.

Al Bayda averages 0 frost days, 40 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 98 rainy days per year.

Al Bayda has warmed by +2.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.33 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 36.5 °C (on 24 July 2025) and the coldest 2.1 °C (on 21 December 2008).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Al BaydaAl Bayda

coords: 13.99°, 45.57°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BShHot semi-aridWarmest monthJuneColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthAugustDriest monthDecember

Mean daily temperature

19.6°C

Average daily high

25.7°C

Average daily low

14.4°C

Annual rainfall

409mm

Sunshine / day

11.0h

Mean relative humidity

58%

Average peak wind

13.2km/h

Seasonal range

7.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

40 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

98 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

24.9 °C

Average feels-like low

13.8 °C

Average peak gust

34.2 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

12 d/yr

Solar radiation

22.0 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.8 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.84 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

36.5 °C

24 July 2025

Coldest day

2.1 °C

21 December 2008

Wettest day

80 mm

11 August 1977

Windiest day

31.8 km/h

25 May 1963

Strongest gust

73.1 km/h

26 October 1972

Hottest feels-like

35.5 °C

23 July 2024

Coldest feels-like

-3.1 °C

18 January 1987

Sunniest day

12.0 h

1 April 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	36.5 °C24 July 2025	7.0 °C4 January 2025	21.6 °C	239 mm	102
2024	35.3 °C21 July 2024	5.2 °C10 January 2024	22.0 °C	414 mm	94
2023	35.8 °C9 July 2023	5.5 °C18 December 2023	20.9 °C	516 mm	75
2022	34.8 °C2 July 2022	8.2 °C20 December 2022	20.7 °C	310 mm	61
2021	34.4 °C10 June 2021	6.9 °C13 January 2021	20.5 °C	429 mm	58
2020	34.1 °C30 June 2020	5.8 °C16 January 2020	20.6 °C	450 mm	59
2019	33.6 °C27 June 2019	8.6 °C21 December 2019	20.8 °C	407 mm	47
2018	33.5 °C12 July 2018	3.1 °C12 January 2018	20.4 °C	385 mm	51
2017	34.1 °C18 July 2017	4.4 °C22 December 2017	20.6 °C	367 mm	59
2016	33.9 °C11 June 2016	8.4 °C20 February 2016	20.8 °C	462 mm	56
2015	34.0 °C11 July 2015	6.6 °C25 January 2015	20.8 °C	330 mm	66
2014	34.4 °C20 July 2014	6.7 °C23 January 2014	20.5 °C	396 mm	59
2013	33.7 °C28 May 2013	6.5 °C18 January 2013	20.6 °C	400 mm	69
2012	34.6 °C8 June 2012	7.6 °C28 January 2012	20.7 °C	300 mm	59
2011	33.3 °C1 September 2011	6.6 °C13 December 2011	20.5 °C	395 mm	57
2010	34.1 °C15 June 2010	3.7 °C11 January 2010	20.6 °C	409 mm	65
2009	34.9 °C5 July 2009	6.1 °C16 January 2009	20.9 °C	302 mm	91
2008	34.8 °C1 July 2008	2.1 °C21 December 2008	20.5 °C	347 mm	78
2007	34.8 °C21 June 2007	5.6 °C6 January 2007	20.9 °C	358 mm	66
2006	35.6 °C31 May 2006	4.2 °C27 February 2006	20.6 °C	362 mm	53
2005	35.0 °C10 June 2005	3.2 °C1 January 2005	20.7 °C	442 mm	65
2004	35.4 °C30 July 2004	3.9 °C31 December 2004	20.5 °C	393 mm	73
2003	34.3 °C21 July 2003	4.4 °C9 January 2003	20.6 °C	298 mm	66
2002	34.0 °C16 June 2002	7.3 °C2 February 2002	20.2 °C	416 mm	41
2001	34.7 °C24 August 2001	5.2 °C2 February 2001	20.5 °C	295 mm	72
2000	35.3 °C5 June 2000	6.3 °C31 December 2000	20.4 °C	283 mm	60
1999	34.0 °C24 May 1999	3.9 °C26 December 1999	20.2 °C	314 mm	61
1998	34.1 °C6 June 1998	6.0 °C10 December 1998	20.5 °C	412 mm	54
1997	33.7 °C23 July 1997	7.9 °C1 January 1997	20.1 °C	459 mm	45
1996	34.8 °C4 August 1996	6.9 °C30 December 1996	19.7 °C	524 mm	31
1995	34.2 °C14 June 1995	7.0 °C8 January 1995	20.0 °C	342 mm	53
1994	33.1 °C12 June 1994	5.2 °C20 January 1994	20.1 °C	293 mm	49
1993	35.3 °C2 June 1993	7.4 °C19 February 1993	19.7 °C	467 mm	40
1992	33.7 °C18 June 1992	4.6 °C6 January 1992	19.6 °C	415 mm	40
1991	34.8 °C2 August 1991	6.0 °C28 November 1991	20.2 °C	293 mm	66
1990	33.7 °C28 July 1990	6.4 °C30 December 1990	20.4 °C	391 mm	57
1989	34.1 °C1 July 1989	6.3 °C19 January 1989	19.4 °C	544 mm	33
1988	34.0 °C14 August 1988	5.4 °C30 December 1988	20.0 °C	362 mm	42
1987	34.8 °C24 August 1987	2.3 °C18 January 1987	19.9 °C	400 mm	35
1986	32.5 °C8 June 1986	3.1 °C3 January 1986	19.5 °C	349 mm	31
1985	32.8 °C27 May 1985	4.6 °C31 December 1985	19.6 °C	391 mm	22
1984	30.8 °C23 May 1984	4.9 °C5 January 1984	19.3 °C	415 mm	10
1983	33.9 °C15 July 1983	5.1 °C31 December 1983	19.6 °C	557 mm	32
1982	33.5 °C21 July 1982	5.9 °C20 November 1982	19.6 °C	415 mm	23
1981	32.9 °C14 June 1981	7.3 °C14 December 1981	19.7 °C	417 mm	37
1980	33.1 °C15 June 1980	5.4 °C5 December 1980	19.8 °C	389 mm	22
1979	34.4 °C15 June 1979	6.4 °C27 November 1979	19.8 °C	403 mm	45
1978	33.6 °C11 June 1978	4.0 °C22 December 1978	19.3 °C	498 mm	28
1977	32.8 °C15 June 1977	5.1 °C3 February 1977	19.2 °C	505 mm	39
1976	31.7 °C2 July 1976	7.5 °C21 January 1976	18.7 °C	494 mm	16
1975	31.6 °C20 June 1975	7.2 °C29 December 1975	19.1 °C	386 mm	27
1974	32.1 °C29 July 1974	5.9 °C26 January 1974	18.7 °C	372 mm	12
1973	33.3 °C9 June 1973	5.0 °C16 December 1973	19.5 °C	309 mm	42
1972	33.2 °C20 June 1972	6.4 °C4 January 1972	18.8 °C	420 mm	16
1971	32.1 °C30 May 1971	5.6 °C10 January 1971	18.5 °C	367 mm	8
1970	32.8 °C4 June 1970	4.7 °C16 December 1970	19.2 °C	439 mm	42
1969	32.3 °C24 May 1969	3.2 °C4 February 1969	19.2 °C	363 mm	19
1968	32.9 °C30 June 1968	4.9 °C4 January 1968	18.8 °C	382 mm	22
1967	31.8 °C27 June 1967	4.2 °C16 December 1967	18.8 °C	490 mm	26
1966	32.8 °C30 June 1966	4.4 °C8 December 1966	19.2 °C	467 mm	26
1965	32.7 °C28 July 1965	6.7 °C19 December 1965	19.0 °C	321 mm	40
1964	32.9 °C28 June 1964	4.4 °C24 December 1964	19.3 °C	315 mm	44
1963	32.2 °C7 June 1963	4.2 °C15 January 1963	19.0 °C	474 mm	15
1962	33.3 °C22 May 1962	4.9 °C20 January 1962	19.4 °C	268 mm	47
1961	32.4 °C4 July 1961	6.9 °C31 December 1961	19.5 °C	396 mm	47
1960	32.7 °C12 June 1960	3.5 °C1 February 1960	18.7 °C	492 mm	23
1959	32.6 °C27 June 1959	3.1 °C17 December 1959	18.8 °C	370 mm	13
1958	32.1 °C2 July 1958	5.3 °C14 January 1958	19.3 °C	282 mm	36
1957	32.3 °C7 June 1957	3.8 °C26 January 1957	18.4 °C	512 mm	9
1956	32.7 °C5 July 1956	3.3 °C26 January 1956	18.7 °C	315 mm	25
1955	31.5 °C16 July 1955	4.3 °C28 February 1955	18.6 °C	393 mm	13
1954	31.4 °C1 June 1954	4.6 °C18 December 1954	18.5 °C	503 mm	13
1953	33.4 °C24 June 1953	7.3 °C19 January 1953	18.5 °C	639 mm	13
1952	31.2 °C30 May 1952	5.3 °C9 December 1952	18.6 °C	491 mm	6
1951	31.3 °C4 June 1951	7.7 °C2 February 1951	18.5 °C	591 mm	9
1950	31.8 °C27 May 1950	5.5 °C9 February 1950	18.0 °C	479 mm	9
1949	32.5 °C27 June 1949	4.6 °C4 January 1949	18.2 °C	641 mm	18
1948	31.9 °C17 July 1948	2.9 °C21 January 1948	18.6 °C	547 mm	6
1947	32.6 °C16 July 1947	5.9 °C15 December 1947	18.4 °C	624 mm	15
1946	31.9 °C6 June 1946	7.6 °C5 January 1946	18.9 °C	377 mm	39
1945	32.4 °C24 July 1945	6.4 °C21 January 1945	18.9 °C	336 mm	19
1944	32.7 °C15 June 1944	7.0 °C27 January 1944	19.3 °C	313 mm	29
1943	30.1 °C4 June 1943	3.2 °C6 February 1943	17.8 °C	471 mm	1
1942	32.2 °C28 June 1942	7.3 °C29 December 1942	19.1 °C	331 mm	36
1941	32.9 °C4 June 1941	2.3 °C8 January 1941	19.0 °C	409 mm	20
1940	32.7 °C20 June 1940	5.2 °C28 December 1940	18.5 °C	572 mm	34

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.9 °C

+2.2 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

102 d/yr

+62

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

239 mm

-170 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	23.7 °C	+1.6 °C	0 mm	-6 mm
Feb	25.6 °C	+2.2 °C	0 mm	-12 mm
Mar	26.2 °C	+1.5 °C	3 mm	-22 mm
Apr	28.0 °C	+2.2 °C	9 mm	-23 mm
May	31.9 °C	+3.5 °C	14 mm	-16 mm
Jun	33.5 °C	+3.6 °C	4 mm	-36 mm
Jul	33.6 °C	+5.3 °C	26 mm	-61 mm
Aug	28.1 °C	+1.1 °C	131 mm	+26 mm
Sep	28.9 °C	+2.0 °C	44 mm	-14 mm
Oct	27.3 °C	+1.5 °C	4 mm	-3 mm
Nov	24.2 °C	+0.4 °C	0 mm	-4 mm
Dec	23.2 °C	+0.8 °C	4 mm	+1 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

36.5 °C

24 Jul 2025

Coldest day

7.0 °C

4 Jan 2025

Wettest day

26.2 mm

19 Aug 2025

Windiest day

25.5 km/h

20 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

56.5 km/h

11 Jun 2025

Hottest feels-like

34.9 °C

26 Jul 2025

Coldest feels-like

2.8 °C

4 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

25 Mar 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Al Bayda?

Al Bayda has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.6 °C and it receives 409 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Al Bayda?

The hottest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 24 July 2025, reaching 36.5 °C.

What is the coldest day in Al Bayda?

The coldest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 21 December 2008, at 2.1 °C.

Does it snow in Al Bayda?

Almost never: Al Bayda sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Al Bayda warmed?

Yes: Al Bayda warmed by +2.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Al Bayda?

The wettest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 11 August 1977, with 80 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Al Bayda?

The windiest day measured in Al Bayda between 1940 and 2025 was 25 May 1963, with winds reaching 31.8 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Al Bayda?

The warmest month in Al Bayda is June (23.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (15.8 °C).

How much does it rain in Al Bayda?

Al Bayda receives on average 409 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 98 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Al Bayda?

Al Bayda gets on average 11.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,015 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Al Bayda?

Yes: Al Bayda has on average 12 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Al Bayda?

In Al Bayda, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 35.5 °C on 23 July 2024, and the lowest was -3.1 °C on 18 January 1987.

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